Powered deployable running board
CA 2437532 C · Owner: Decoma International Inc. · Inventors: Lee, V-Bond; Wojtaszek, John; Berkebile, Thomas E.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A running board assembly for a motor vehicle has a step for supporting an individual thereon. The running board assembly also includes a slide assembly extending between the step and the motor vehicle for slidably moving the step between a retracted position and an extended position. In addition the running board assembly includes a pneumatic cylinder operatively engaging the slide assembly so that the pneumatic cylinder effects energizing movement between the retracted and the extended positions.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed August 18, 2003 and granted July 12, 2011. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 18, 2023.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by August 18, 2025.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
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